Species Ceutorhynchus oregonensis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · Works Cited

Weevil beetle - Ceutorhynchus oregonensis

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Curculionoidea

Family Curculionidae (Snout and Bark Beetles)

Subfamily Ceutorhynchinae (Minute Seed Weevils)

Tribe Ceutorhynchini

Genus Ceutorhynchus

Species oregonensis (Ceutorhynchus oregonensis)

Explanation of Names

Ceutorhynchus oregonensis Dietz 1896

Range

transcontinental in Canada + OR-ID(1)(2)

Food

associated with Rorippa palustris (Brassicaceae)(2)

Works Cited

1.	Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea, excluding Scolytinae and Platypodinae) of the Yukon Anderson R.S. 1997. In: Danks H.V., Downes J.A. (Eds.), Insects of the Yukon. Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods), Ottawa: 523–5.

2.	The weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, II: New records from Nova Scotia... C.G. Majka, R.S. Anderson, & D.B. McCorquodale. 2007. The Canadian Entomologist 139: 397–442.

Contributed by v belov on 24 January, 2013 - 9:00am
Last updated 24 January, 2013 - 2:04pm

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